This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A number of syntactic constructions claimed by linguists to be restricted to main clauses are shown to occur, in fact, in a variety of ...

When one clause is subordinate to another, it means the subordinate clause holds less importance in the sentence than the main clause. When the dog barked, my sister started crying. The fox, even ...

Such a structure that combines an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses is called a complex sentence. When a sentence has two main clauses ...

A conjunction is a word, or words, used to connect two clauses together. A subordinating conjunction is the word/words used to link two clauses together, a main clause and a subordinate clause ...

Its main clause, “Wilson became,” is boring compared with other stuff going on here. The stuff in the subordinate clause — the part that begins with the subordinating conjunction “when ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

All three clause types function as adverbial clauses. I propose that the distribution of these clause types is due to the degree of certainty of the truth of the subordinate clause proposition, ...

This article examines the ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses in crosslinguistic perspective. Using a representative sample of forty languages, the author shows that the ordering of ...

Based on what we established in the last two lessons, it must be clear to you by now that it is wrong to treat phrases and subordinate clauses as sentences. The reason is that, without a main ...

A conjunction is a word, or words, used to connect two clauses together. A subordinating conjunction is the word/words used to link two clauses together, a main clause and a subordinate clause ...